Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

The collection includes the most famous novels and short stories by Andrei Platonov, including ‘The Hidden Man’, ‘The Juvenile Sea’, ‘The Potudan River’, ‘Fro’, ‘Flower on the Earth’, etc.

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become...

‘Quiet Don’ is a large-scale epic painting that tells the story of the Don Cossacks during the most controversial, turning point period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, in the words of Sholokhov himself, ‘in a fight to the death, brother goes against brother, son - against the father.’

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

Beautifully illustrated by Iaroslav Erko.

A huge monster unknown to science has been discovered in the sea! Either a giant deep-sea squid, or a species of whale. As part of an international expedition, a biology professor Aronax sets off to hunt for this terrible creature, and as a result, together with his servant Consel and Canadian harpooner Ned Lend, he becomes a prisoner aboard the Nautilus, an incredible technical ship created by...

The works included in this collection - from philosophical 'Nausea' to autobiographical 'Words' - to one degree or another unite the main themes of Sartre's work, to which the great existentialist writer again and again turned his whole life: freedom, creativity, self-awareness in the world, death. Moreover, these themes themselves in Sartre are inextricably linked. After all, freedom in his...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - a famous American poet, novelist, critic, journalist. His influence as a writer and poet on world literature is enormous: it is Charles Baudelaire, French symbolism and almost the entire Russian Silver Age. , the novel 'The Story of Arthur Gordon Pim', as well as a collection of short stories 'The System of Dr. Small and Professor Piria'. The book 'Raven' includes...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local...

According to the plot of the book, Foma Hryhorovych tells the story of how his grandfather was sent with a letter to the queen. On the way, the grandfather met a Cossack, and he confessed to him that he had sold his soul to the devil and that same night will have to pay. Grandfather decides to help him and chats all night, but his sleep overwhelms him and he falls asleep. Waking up, the...